2015

#Leaded: Modern (2015) Floor Tiles

#Leaded: Modern (2015) Floor Tiles

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New (2015) 12 inch floor tile: 2,429 ppm lead & 1481 ppm arsenic. *** Even in 2017 floor tiles are not regulated*** The amount of lead that is considered unsafe (and illegal) in an item intended for children, is anything 90 ppm lead and higher. Floor tiles – while likely used and interacted with by children every…

#Leaded: Swedish Nils Olsson Painted Horse

#Leaded: Swedish Nils Olsson Painted Horse

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Swedish painted toy horse: as high as 360 ppm Lead. New in 2015. Thanks to Mary Byrd for donating and supporting this post! For #SaferChoices for your family, click here. To make a contribution in support of my independent consumer goods testing and lead poisoning prevention advocacy work, click here.  Thank you!  

Avi’s Tenth Birthday (originally posted in 2015)

Avi’s Tenth Birthday (originally posted in 2015)

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Originally Posted: January 29, 2015 David “Avi” Benjamin Rubin is ten years old today.These have been the most challenging ten years of my life.   In August 2005 Avi was just seven-months old when he was poisoned by the work of painting contractor who did not use lead-safe work practices in preparing the exterior of…